2015年5月16日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Education News


Sweet Briar's last class: Why all-women colleges are disappearing

Posted: 16 May 2015 08:34 AM PDT

For Sweet Briar College in Virginia, Saturday's commencement is the beginning of the end. "These institutions can no longer serve their original purpose: providing opportunities for those shut out from the male-dominated world of higher education," Brian Burton wrote for the Harvard Political Review in 2010. Between 2001 and 2011, female enrollment in all degree-granting institutions rose by more than a third, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. In the case of Sweet Briar, the added burdens of a largely restricted endowment and nearly $30 million in debt forced administrators to make a hard decision, the Associated Press reported.

Brewing budget deal spares health program, defers tax cuts

Posted: 15 May 2015 09:44 PM PDT

Minnesota's legislative leaders announced late Friday that they were closing in on a sweeping deal for a new two-year budget that pumps more than $400 million into public schools and preserves a health ...
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